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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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(a) Plan an experiment and prepare a flow chart of the steps that you would follow to ensure that the seeds are formed only from the desired sets of pollen grains. Name the type of experiment that you carried out.

(b) Write the importance of such experiments.

Answer

(a) To obtain seeds formed only from the desired sets of pollen grains one can opt for artificial hybridisation. Following are the steps involved: 


(b) Artificial hybridisation is important for the following reasons:

  • It helps to improve the crop yield.
  • It ensures that the crops produced have the desired characteristics.
  • It helps to yield commercially superior varieties.

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